Thread: Now a True Believer

I had read that many of our senior (and not so senior) members were stropping mid-shave. I normally do 60 laps on the leather prior to starting the shave so I never gave it much thought. Although I was noticing significant tugging between my lower lip and chin, I wrote that off as being the toughest, coarsest and densest beard on my face. That changed yesterday when I took a hunk out of my chin. Uggh!!

So today I did an additional 30 laps on the strop before tackling my lip and chin areas. I have been putting a hot towel to those areas after shaving everything else, the re-lathering. This time I added the extra stropping. WOW!! What a difference. Very little tugging. The razor cut through the whiskers smoothly and cleanly.